Hi Paul Thank you for the response... have attempted the dummy partition method previously and the system would reach the listing of connected devices and basically hang there forever. Found a work around however it involves shuffling around the partition order... not ideal!
What I am attempting to do is create three partitions, the first would be the "boot", the second would be the "root" and the third would be an "EPD" ( External Persistent Device ) to store data on that I would like to share between different distributions allowing me to swap out without the fear of data loss. On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 7:04 AM Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 12:06 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote: > > > Have been trying to disable the root boot time automatic rootfs > > resize for devices running arm such as the RPi, Odroid, RockPi etc... > > with little to no success. > > Normal Debian installs do not alter the rootfs size after installation, > so you must be using a custom image with extra packages installed. > > If you are using the Debian images for RPi, the site for that gives a > procedure for disabling/limiting the first-boot filesystem resize step: > > https://raspi.debian.net/defaults-and-settings/ > > For other images you will need to consult the folks who created them. > > > Is there any way to do this? The systems running the 'cloud-init' > > packages like ubuntu have given us a means to disable it, however am > > unable to find any documentation on the debian system doing this? > > cloud-init is available in Debian too, but I assume like something that > would only be used on cloud images, not on ARM images. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > -- Thank you Kind Regards Johnny de Villiers
